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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Unknown assailants, shouting "God is greatest," lobbed a percussion bomb at the office of Turkey's most staunchly secularist newspaper on Thursday, the third attack on the paper in just a week. The device exploded but nobody was hurt, though some glass was blown out of windows by the blast, the chief editor of Cumhuriyet, Ibrahim Yildiz, told Reuters. Attackers also tried to...

Los Angeles --- It was a remarkably sad coincidence that within the span of a few days, two of the world's more influential newspaper figures died. What is even more remarkable is that even though the two newspapers over which they famously presided could not have been more different, both were rightly considered pioneers and innovators. From 1986 until 1993, Chen Li was editor-in-chief of China...

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow prosecutors Thursday rearrested Fail Sadretdinov, acquitted last week of the murder of former Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov. "Sadretdinov was arrested on specious grounds," said Sadretdinov's lawyer, Ruslan Koblev. Another lawyer, Ruslan Zakalyuzhny, said Sadretdinov had been arrested in his notary's office without any explanations. Sadretdinov and two...

EVERY waking moment reminds Frank Gardner of what happened to him in Saudi Arabia. Shot six times – four in the small of the back – Gardner thinks of himself as fortunate to be paralysed rather than dead. But the few seconds that it took to discharge those bullets never leave the 44-year-old. The images spool, in an endless loop, across his memory like a strip of film. He can see himself dashing...

Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will seek to revive the process to reach an understanding with media players to cut down on the broadcast of market sensitive news and avoid information that drove up or hammered down prices of financial products without being backed by facts. Coming down heavily on the media for repeatedly giving out inaccurate news to investors and the public, Sebi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of the European Parliament said on Thursday that the White House has pressured journalists not to name certain European countries in their reports about CIA detention practices on the continent. Claudio Fava of Italy, charged with writing a European Parliament committee report on possible secret CIA prisons and detainee transfers in Europe, did not identify the...

The Media Institution of Southern Africa (Misa-SA) on Wednesday challenged institutions and individuals who have been criticising the media recently to substantiate their allegations. "Misa-SA challenges these critics to take their complaints - and they will have to be specific - to the ombuds institutions set up to regulate media editorial conduct, the Press Ombudsman and the Broadcasting...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A reporter who worked for a pro-Sunni Iraqi television station was gunned down in Baghdad, making him at least the fourth media worker killed in Iraq this month, Iraqi officials and the station said Thursday. Saud Muzahim al-Hadithi was found dead - shot repeatedly in the head - in Baghdad's notorious Dora neighborhood last week, said Iraqi army Capt. Ali Yaeen. News of his death...

THE outcry over the Islamic cartoons published by Denmark's leading newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, had escalated into the biggest Danish foreign policy crisis since World War II, Hans-Henrik Holm, the professor of international relations at the Danish School of Journalism and Aarhus University, said yesterday. Professor Holm said the crisis was completely unforeseen by the editors of the newspaper...

Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader, who led criticism of a Danish newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, has decided to leave the country, the daily reported Thursday. Imam Ahmed Abu Laban said he has felt humiliated in the aftermath of the cartoon controversy, which led to riots around the world, and that he would leave Denmark to return to Gaza with his family, the...